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Lap dog.
A lap dog is a person who is eager to please another at the expense of his or her own needs in order to maintain a position of privilege or favor.
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lap dog
noun
A small dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.
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Lap Dog?
Parliament has proved no lap dog.
(Nicola Formichetti brought his lap dog in a man bag).
Muhammad, jealous of Malcolm's influence, called him "my lap dog".
Mr. Karzai has long faced accusations of being a lap dog to the Americans.
But nothing would be as good as the lap dog of a county commissioner".
A lap dog is seen as too timid, he was told.
Some critics accused it of becoming the Court of Appeal's "lap dog".
You can be a lap dog, a watchdog or a junkyard dog".
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He has mocked the press for its "lap-dog" coverage of Mr. Bloomberg.
Anne's sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued sister, Jane, sees him eyeing little Miss Seymour, fondling a lap-dog.
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